Favorite Western Movie

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   I'm not sure this is the right place to post this question but here goes.
What is your favorite Western movie?  Or favorite western actor?
For myself, I might pick Unforgiven as the movie.  I like just about all of Clint Eastwoods movies, but I think that was his best ever.  
Course I love any movie John Wayne ever made.  Last month I saw a movie with him I had never seen called "Shepperd of the Hills".   
So what's your favorites?  And who's your favorite actor in them?

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Gunrunner Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Forest Grump Joined: 05 July 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1970	Topic: Favorite Western Movie Posted: 01 August 2004 at 12:05
	I'm not sure this is the right place to post this question but here goes. What is your favorite Western movie? Or favorite western actor? For myself, I might pick Unforgiven as the movie. I like just about all of Clint Eastwoods movies, but I think that was his best ever. Course I love any movie John Wayne ever made. Last month I saw a movie with him I had never seen called "Shepperd of the Hills". So what's your favorites? And who's your favorite actor in them?
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quigleysharps45 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .243 Winchester Joined: 08 May 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 131	Posted: 01 August 2004 at 15:58
	Tom Selleck in "Quigley Down Under" is a pretty hard one to beat. Most John Wayne movies and any with Sam Elliot in them also.

waksupi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka Keeper of the Old Traditions Joined: 11 June 2003 Status: Offline Points: 2371	Posted: 01 August 2004 at 16:42
	THAT is a hard question, and I can't narrow it down to one. Some of my favorites are; Red River Centennial Cheyenne Social Club Little Big Man The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean She Wore a Yellow Ribbon The Wild Bunch Jack Ellam, Slim Pickens, Richard Farnsworth, and Ben Johnson are my choice for the best western charectors, although they seldom got top billing. If some of you younger guys have never seen these, they are worth looking for. I imagine I will remember some more good ones to add on!
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waksupi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka Keeper of the Old Traditions Joined: 11 June 2003 Status: Offline Points: 2371	Posted: 01 August 2004 at 16:54
	Oooo! Oooo! I got some more! Destry Rides Again North to Alaska The Magnificent Seven My Name is Trinity My Darling Clementine The Searchers Stage Coach Tombstone Outlaw Josey Wales The Undefeated OK, OK, I'll stop now. BUT, if you watch the listed movies, you will see the best of the genre.
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deaddog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator AKA The Flying Gun Joined: 23 April 2004 Location: Svalbard Status: Offline Points: 991201	Posted: 01 August 2004 at 17:22
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Gunrunner Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby Forest Grump Joined: 05 July 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1970	Posted: 01 August 2004 at 17:32
	Slim Pickens cracks me up. So does Walter Brennan.
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jayrando Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .375 Holland & Holland Magnum Joined: 12 July 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 741	Posted: 01 August 2004 at 20:57
	Once Upon a TIme in the West---every shot was an homage to another western, but it was done so well and with such love you never notice and it stands up by itself. The Wild Bunch- I liked Sam he was an original. Those 2 and a desert Island I could make it for a while...maybe. Jay

Timberghozt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator aka GarryOwen Joined: 21 March 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1971	Posted: 02 August 2004 at 00:21
	I`d say any western with Robert Duvall in it, prolly favorite movie was Lonesome Dove. John Wayne and any western he made.The Shootist was a good one and The Searchers too.....Gene
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TasunkaWitko Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Administrator aka The Gipper Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Chinook Montana Status: Offline Points: 14753	Posted: 02 August 2004 at 03:59
	quite a few of my favorites have already been listed, including little big man centennial north to alaska blazing saddles the trinity movies and quigley down under some others that i love are hang em high the youg guns movies son of the morning star sergeant rutledge and dances with wolves that last one is kind of a love/hate thing. i really liked the book and the movie, but am not overly fond of all the hoopla surrounding costner.
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The_Mountaineer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby West BY-GOD Virginian! Joined: 02 July 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2653	Posted: 02 August 2004 at 04:30
	Anything with Eastwood But I must say "The Unforgiven" was perty powerful towards the bar scene with Gene. I'm sure spot_shooter would agree!
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NH_Hunter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka The Kid Joined: 13 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3508	Posted: 02 August 2004 at 13:19
	The Undefeated Blazing Saddles All time favorite "El Dorado" I have seen that movie so many times its not even funny. Did i mention i ahve the two western channels Some others Quigley Down Under Tombstone
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waksupi Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka Keeper of the Old Traditions Joined: 11 June 2003 Status: Offline Points: 2371	Posted: 02 August 2004 at 16:47
	Damn! Got disconnected! Ron, you mentioned two movies I made props for, Son of the Morning Star, and Dances With Wolves. Son of the Morning Star was the best deal, as they wanted to rent, rather than buy. So I made more on the rentals than what the pieces were worth. And I got some good insurance claims for damage. Remember the scene where they are raiding a village, and a horse runs right across a blanket strip? That was mine. Hard on 'em! Anyway, I repaired the items, and then sold them, advertised as, "Used in the movie..." This stuff brings premium prices. Made out like a bandit!
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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest	Posted: 03 August 2004 at 02:12
	The Outlaw Josey Wales, Quigley Down Under, Lonesome Dove. But for truth and comedy: City Slickers Best line in the flick "Women need a reason to make love.........men just need a place". Jack Polance was so good they made him a twin for the sequel. BEAR

2Bits Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .243 Winchester Joined: 10 August 2004 Status: Offline Points: 186	Posted: 12 August 2004 at 17:06
	Well Boys! I reckon I got to do a mite bit of scratchin the head a spell. Heres my order of Western Movies OK Shane......Alan Ladd & Jack Palance< >Highnoon......Gary Cooper Jeramiah Johnson...RobertRedfield< > Cowboys John Wayne, Bruce Dern & The Kids! Magnificent Seven....Yul Brenner & Dennis Hopper Jesse James...Tyron Power & Henry Fonda Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid.......Paul Newman, Robert Redford Mountain Men...Charlton Heston< >Nevada Smith.....Steve McQueen Judge Roy Bean.....Edward Buchanna (also played in "Shane") The Wild Bunch...Robert Ryan< >Searchers.......John Wayne The Professionals.......Jack Palance & Lee Marvin Cat Balou....Lee Marvin< >Wyatt Earp.....Henry Fonda Missouri Breaks......Jack Nickolson & Marlon Brando True Grit...John Wayne & Glen Campbell< >Unforgiven...Clint Eastwood Fort Apache.....John Wayne & Henry Fonda with Shirley Temple Horse Soldiers......John Wayne & Willam Holden Lonesome Dove......Tommy Lee Jones & Robert Duval My favorite Western leading men actors were Gary Cooper, Glen Ford, John Wayne, Clint Eastwood. Character actors were Slim Pickens, Walter Brennen, Jack Ellam, Ben Johnson, Victor McGloughlin and Harry Carry, James Colburn (who did star in movies). Edited by 2Bits
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Murf Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .243 Winchester Joined: 12 April 2004 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 135	Posted: 25 August 2004 at 08:23
	Another vote for Shane even if Allan Ladd was not like the Shane as described in the book Jack Palance more than made up for it. I used to study the novel in English classes with grade 8 students. Turned the classroom into a combo bar and store as in the movie We had saddles, branding irons ammo and "wiskey" for sale Complete with occassional gunfights and even a vamp on the piano with feather boa. ( had to send her to the Principal's office..slinky dress and no bra. The note I had her take had 2 circles with a dot in the center of each and a message .."Please handle these matters") My God would that raise issues of violence and sexism today. A whole afternoon was spent doing skits the kids wrote and presented. Another great movie was Cat Balleau.....hey Fonda did look okay when young and politics didn't come into the movie. Lee Marvin plays A drunk former gunfighter a la Shane...even his horse is out of it, leaning against a wall with its legs crossed as Lee sleeps off a drunk before the big rescue scene when they save a young man from the gallows Evil Roy Slade has a villan travel to New York sort of like the Butch and Sundance boys. However his old ways surface when he attends a chamber music recital and can't help pulling a gun on the gal playing the cello and insisting that she "Get that fiddle out from between her legs and under her chin where it belongs"
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Triggerguard Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby aka The San Antonio Terminator Joined: 13 June 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2212	Posted: 25 August 2004 at 09:51
	I can't believe NOBODY has mentioned Peckinpah's Ride the High Country! Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott. On of the finest westerns ever made. BTW, the tents in the miner's camp came from the Mutiny on the Bounty set, seems the studio had all this canvas available... Scott was the topkick in The Horse Soldiers as his career was kinda winding down. Jeramiah Johnson........Robert Redfield never heard of him. I liked The Simpsons description of Paint Your Wagon. Homer was expecting a Lee Marvin kill'em all movie. "Marge, make them stop doing all that fruity singing!" The Shanghai Kid with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. Jackie Chan: "My name is Chong Wang" Wilson:"John Wayne? That's a terrible name for a cowboy!" Rustler's Rahpsody, with Tom Berenger.
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macca Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .416 Rigby AKA The Thunder From DownUnder Joined: 10 June 2003 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 1149	Posted: 25 August 2004 at 19:29
	Man all this movie talk has me going through my DVD and videos.I'll be watching a heap of the above this weekend. My young fella loves the magnificent seven.Espeacially robert vaughn and the flies "once I would have got all three" I liked the mini series with Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot based on Louis L'Armours Sackett novels. Macca
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BIG LOST Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .22 LongRifle Joined: 28 August 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 48	Posted: 30 August 2004 at 17:17
	blood on the moon tom horn,( a distant relation by the way ) the unforgiven,( not unforgiven) rancho delux valdez is coming the professionals pale rider,(a shane remake ) the rounders and many more I can't remember Edited by BIG LOST
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2Bits Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .243 Winchester Joined: 10 August 2004 Status: Offline Points: 186	Posted: 16 September 2004 at 17:20
	Triggerguard........I am very sorry not to have included that movie in my list along with Steve McQueen in "Tom Horn" I reckon I just plumb forgot those boys......I hope they do forgive me too!
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Birdwatcher Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List .243 Winchester Joined: 21 July 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 137	Posted: 19 September 2004 at 12:27
	Geeze! AM I the only one who has seen and liked "Ride With the Devil"? Set in Civil War Missouri with Tobey Maguire and Jewel? Others I'd buy: Jeremiah Johnson Last of the Mohicans (OK and Eastern, but it was West at the time :o) Lonesome Dove Little Big Man Open Range Unforgiven Ulzana's Raid Windwalker (OK a pre-frontier "western", but still "west" :o)
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